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Archive for the 'Sports Related Fitness' Category

Strength-flexibility: For Mass, Prowess and Fewer Injuries

This exercise has gone by the way of the dinosaurs, thanks to its unparalleled brutality and apparent impossibility. I dare you to perform it even with an empty forty-five pound bar! Russian Victor Sots, the world champion weightlifter of the early eighties, would clean up to four hundred pounds and descend into a rock bottom front squat. What, big guy, not a big deal for your beefy thighs and bulging traps? How about part two? Lights, camera, action! Once in the ass-to-the-floor front squat, the husky Russky would press the heavy metal overhead! Awed silence, please.

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Strong Abs, Strong Hands=Strong Body

Surrounding the working muscle by commands from the center (abs/ glutes) and the periphery (hand and forearm muscles) leaves the former no choice but be stronger! When Dr. Ken Leistner of Long Island, NY reached a certain poundage in a deadlift, his grip strength started limiting him and he was tempted to use straps which unload your hands by making the barbell hang off your wrists. But he did not.

Friday, February 27th, 2009